crucifyverb [ T ]
uk/ˈkruː.sɪ.faɪ/us/ˈkruː.sə.faɪ/to kill someone by tying or fastening them with nails to a cross and leaving them there to die
informal to severely punish or damage someone or something:
He's going to crucify me when he finds out what I've done!
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- hanging
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
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